Abusive Parents in Web Video.
- In a one-off gag, MJTR of Analog Control claimed his father abused and neglected him in the hopes of making him a champion at Sportsball. This turns him into a "Well Done, Son" Guy for the remainder of the episode.
- The Birch:
- In Season 1, the Bouchards are extremely controlling of Lanie, drugging her and locking her inside the house to prevent her from acting out.
- In Season 2, Rory's father had been abusive towards her before his death. Her mother had been oblivious to the abuse.
- Caddicarus: Played for Laughs. Whenever his stepdaughter Amy appears onscreen, Caddy torments her in some way.
- Channel Awesome:
- Ask That Guy and the Nostalgia Critic; Ask That Guy seems to think that he was never good enough and they told him that he would have go to back in the dumpster where they found him, while the Critic portrayed them as monsters ripping him apart in a kindergarten drawing. Ask That Guy's response to "Why does Daddy hit Mommy?" and the Critic apparently hiding in the cupboard when he was scared seem pretty suspect, as are Critic's rants on dreams not coming true and parents putting pressure on their kids. Also, with Critic being a weepy Psychopathic Manchild and Ask That Guy having twisted views on sex and women, it was pretty obvious from the start.
- Also treated for laughs was the The Nostalgia Chick's childhood. Her mother made her feel inadequate, her uncle sexually abused her and her father never gave her any love. Word Of Lindsay is that she retreated into always watching television to escape her parents yelling.
- Played for Drama in Demo Reel, where Tacoma's family abuses him for sending his father to jail, Rebecca's parents make her feel worthless for not knowing what she wants to do with her life, and Donnie's family actually want him to be alone while they spend holidays with his wife.
- Critic's show introduced Uncle Lies, an Ask That Guy-like sweater-wearing father who loves traumatizing his children, and Aunt Despair, a miserable drugged out smoker mother who neglects her kids. Later on he connected Hyper as their oldest daughter, providing her with a Freudian Excuse for the way she acts.
- The Human Pet:
- Eric's father was mentioned as being abusive during his childhood, to both him and his sister. He outright refused to speak with Eric when he'd moved to Hollywood to pursue his acting career.
- In "This Video Will Take You To Hell", we learn about a child whose parents kept them locked in a room with a mattress, a broken TV, a litter box, and pet bowls. This child turned out to be Sam himself.
- At his absolute worst, Jeffery Sr. From McJuggerNuggets borders on this. While he's never shown physically harming Jesse, he causes him more than enough grief by breaking his stuff. However, since The Reveal that the series was fake all along, we've realized that Jeffery Sr. is a nice person in real life.
- Godzilla himself was portrayed as one in the earlier seasons of Monster Island Buddies, being quite neglectful toward Minilla and downright hateful toward Zilla. It's later revealed that the cause for this misbehavior was that his own father, the original 1954 Gojira, was rather rude toward him and outright considered him "the worst accident ever", and forced him to kill a dolphin and lit him in fire once. However, after seeing Minilla scaring away Monster X/Keizer Ghidorah's army with a giant robot he built by himself, Godzilla has a change of heart and now aims to become a better parent. King Ghidorah is also shown to have issues with his own father, Monster X/Keizer Ghidorah, who in turn also has daddy issues with Grand King Ghidorah, his dad, who behaves pretty much like Abe Simpson with his son.
- My Dad's Tapes: Because of his hatred for women, Chris's father had threatened to start beating his sister. This is what lead their mother to split from him.
- Petscop: Once things go dark, this appears to be a Central Theme. This is best shown with Marvin, as, from what we get in the in-game notes, he's done some harm to Care and Micheal, the latter (who might not be his kid) implied to be completely broken, being pleased for some reason that the former isn't growing eyebrows, and the fact that, in Episode 11, he kidnaps Care after a divorce.
- StacheBros: Bowser treats his son, Bowser Jr., more strictly in the series than he does in canon. He even tries to throw Junior in a pit for being unable to breathe fire in "Mario & Luigi! Stache Bros - The Stachey Sequel", something that the canon Bowser wouldn't do.
- SuperMarioLogan:
- Bowser is usually a terrible parent to his son, Junior. One example would be when, after Junior fails a test, Bowser beats him with a cable cord. Oddly, though, Bowser seems to change between being kind to his son and being an abusive Jerkass.
- Charleyyy once threw his infant daughter down a staircase. note
- In the "Bowser Jr's Playtime" videos, Bowser Jr. plays a man named "Jr." (his wife played by Joseph and his daughter played by Cody), and "Jr." is an abusive workaholic who apparently sleeps with his secretary, calls his wife a whore, and beats his wife and daughter, constantly berating the both of them. Scary when one thinks this is just play-house, and most kids base such things on their home life.
- Downplayed with Mario. After he reluctantly became the Parental Substitute to Jeffy, he tried to get rid of him in "Jeffy's Special Easter!" and "Where's Jeffy?", shot him with a Nerf gun saying, "Die Jeffy!", in "Bowser Junior's Nerf War!", and locked him in the bathroom and pretended not to hear him in "Jeffy's Cellphone!". Though otherwise, he doesn't physically or emotionally abuse Jeffy anyway outside of those examples.
- Jeffy's mother Nancy, to the point the poor child is afraid of her. In fact, the only reason she came back for him is so she can get rich, as Jeffy's father Jacques Pierre François left all of his money to Jeffy following his suicide, which Jeffy can get once he turns 18. Hell, she tells Jeffy he can't eat for a week, saying he's hungry!
- Tribe Twelve: Mary Asher is nicknamed "The Selfish" for a reason. Her attitude extended even to her treatment of her son, Milo, who she neglected, exposed to her dating several men he didn't like, and who she used for her own goals, bringing him to her Cult and forcing him to take pills that turned him into an obedient son, who didn't question her weird actions or the presence of Slender-Man.
- The Weather: The Dystopian-future cop states that they aren't used to thinking, because their parents would punish them if they thought.
